Chapter 7 Flashcards

1
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Why do 10 to 20 percent of babies cry reflexively?

A

Immature digestion causing gas and reflux or an allergy to formula ingredients

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2
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Crying strategies

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Feed (bottle, breast,) Binkie, Burp, Swaddle (bunt), White noise, Rock

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3
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When does social smile appear?

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About 6 weeks, evoked by human face

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4
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When is laugh out loud laughter?

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3 months

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5
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When does anger appear and what triggers it?

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Appears at 6 months, triggered by frustration

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6
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What emotion causes cortisol to increase?

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Sadness. Extended sadness

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7
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What does excessive stress do?

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Impairs the brain, changing it’s architecture

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8
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When does separation anxiety appear?

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Appears at 9 months, normal at age 1, intensifies by age 2 and then subsides

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9
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Stranger Wariness

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Appears around 9-12 months. Baby no longer smiles at any face. Depends on the development of object permanence.

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10
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Appropriate response to temper tantrums

A

Respond with comforting sounds and words

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11
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When do pride, shame, and embarrassment appear?

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The end of the second year. Related to social awareness

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12
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Self-Awareness

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Realization that he or she is a distinct individual

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13
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Dot of rouge experiment teaches us…

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Self-recognition appears at about 18 months

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14
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Temperament

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A genetic disposition. Inborn

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15
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Difference between personality and temperament

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Personality is learned, temperament is innate

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16
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The temperamental traits are…

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Effortful control
Negative mood
Exuberance

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17
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Prenatal/physiological influences on temperament

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Hormones, limbic system differences, early maternal influences

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18
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Parent’s responsiveness

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Fosters heart rate, weight gain, brain maturation

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19
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synchrony

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back and forth interaction between parent and child. Children with ASD lack this

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20
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attachment

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Tie the infant forms with the caregiver

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21
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Strange Situation

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Mary Ainsworth’s way of measuring children’s attachment to their caregiver

22
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Two signs indicate an attachment:

A

Proximity-seeking, contact-maintaining

23
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Attachment Type B and parental traits

A

Secure Attachment. Is calmed by mother. Parent is responsive, high in synchrony, not stressed, has a working model from parents

24
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Attachment Type A and parental traits

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Avoidant Attachment: Baby avoids connection. Mom doesn’t distress or comfort baby. Mom might be mentally ill, mistreat the child, or child’s temperament is difficult

25
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Attachment Type C

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Insecure-Resistant/Ambivalent. Anxiety and uncertainty are present. Child clings to mother but hits her when mom comes back.

26
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Attachment Type D and parental traits

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Disorganized Attachment. Odd reactions when mom leaves and returns. Freeze, hit themselves, etc. Mom may use alcohol, abuse child, deprivate the child, etc

27
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Long term impact of the attachment styles

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D: psychological disorders
B: Healthy. Children have supportive relationships
A: Aloof/distant
C: Relationships may be angry and unpredictable

28
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Social referencing

A

Seeking information about how to respond to an unfamiliar situation by observing someone else

29
Q

Father-infant relationships teach infants:

A

Develop social and emotional skills and about appropriate expressions of emotion, especially anger

30
Q

Mom and Dad’s play style differs…

A

Mom is gentle, dad is rough-and-tumble

31
Q

Father of psychosexual theory

A

Freud

32
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Psychosexual theory and development

A

Parent-child relationship is the model for all intimacy going forward

33
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Father of psychosocial theory

A

Erickson

34
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Psychosocial theory and development

A

Children learn whether the world is scary or safe
Children learn how to be autonomous or embarrased

35
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Father of Behaviorism

A

Watson

36
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Behaviorism teaches us

A

Any child can become anything if properly reinforced

37
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Father of Social Learning Theory

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Albert Bandura

38
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Social learning theory and development

A

Children want to do what the people around them are doing (parents)

39
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Proximal Parenting

A

Lots of physical contact

40
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Distal Parenting

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Focus more on the intellect/objects than the body

41
Q

Proximal parenting results in:

A

Less-self aware and more compliant

42
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Distal Parenting results in

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More self-aware and less compliant

43
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Father of cognitive theory

A

Piaget

44
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Cognitive theory and development

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Early experiences give us a working model

45
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working model

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Set of assumptions that a person uses to organize perceptions and experiences

46
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Father of Sociocultural Theory

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Lev Vygotsky

47
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Sociocultural theory and development

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Children learn from mentors who provide scaffolding to apprentices in learning

48
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Evolutionary Theory and development

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Bonding between adults and children is rooted in the desire for the children to survive and the adults to reproduce

49
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Allocare

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Caregivers who are not the mother (even father is allocare)

50
Q

High quality Day care…

A

Attention to the child, encouragement of language and sensorimotor development, health and safety, well trained and warm and responsive caregivers

51
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Benefits and harms of daycare

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Mixed results. Preschool education is beneficial, but it can be done at home